DaimlerChrysler (DCX) has decided that it can't build their own subcompact cars in North America so they will need to import them and are beginning the search for companies in China to partner with.
According to this NYTimes.com article, DaimlerChrysler’s interest in importing a subcompact to the United States, to be sold under the Dodge brand, is not new. Rüdiger Grube, an executive vice president of the company and the member of its management board responsible for China and for corporate development, made the biggest news of the Shanghai auto show in April 2005 when he told a small group of reporters that the company was in talks with one of its Chinese partners to create a joint venture for the export of subcompacts to the United States.
The company tried to downplay and even deny that any such move is in the making when the remarks upset the United Automobile Workers union. The company tries to work with the union whenever feasible and hopes to be given the same concessions that have been extended to Ford Motor Co. (F) and General Motors Corporation (GM).
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